Epicor Advanced MES (formerly Mattec)
| Vendor | Epicor Software Corporation |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Ownership | Privately held; investors Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (since 2020) and CVC (since 2024) |
| Deployment | On-premises or cloud |
| Target market | Plastics, rubber, and metal-stamping plants with machine-paced production; typically paired with an ERP such as Epicor Kinetic |
| Industries | Injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, blown film, rubber, metal stamping, packaging |
| Pricing | Not published; quoted per project |
| Website | epicor.com/en-us/products/manufacturing-execution-software-mes |
The short version
Epicor Advanced MES watches machines. Known for most of its life as Mattec, it is a real-time manufacturing execution system for plants running machine-paced, repetitive production, and above all for plastics processors. It wires into equipment and sensors on the floor, captures cycle data without anyone keying it in, and shows production managers live output, scrap, downtime, and schedule status.
One thing to settle before reading further: this is not an ERP system. It appears in this directory because US plastics processors routinely evaluate it in the same shortlist round as an ERP backbone such as Epicor Kinetic.
Where Epicor Advanced MES comes from
Mattec was founded in 1983 to build real-time shop-floor monitoring for the plastics industry, with injection molding as the first target. The product moved into Solarsoft Business Systems, and when Epicor acquired Solarsoft in 2012, Mattec came with the deal. Epicor sold it as Epicor Mattec MES for several years before the rename to Epicor Advanced MES. It remains in the current portfolio, alongside Epicor's other shop-floor products Acadia and Connected Process Control.
The vendor behind it is Epicor Software Corporation, headquartered in Austin, Texas, and privately held. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has been an investor since 2020; CVC joined as co-investor in a transaction completed in late 2024.
What it covers
Everything starts with automated data collection. Machine interfaces and sensors connect Advanced MES to injection molding machines, extruders, presses, and auxiliary equipment, recording cycles, counts, and process parameters with no manual entry.
On top of that data layer sit real-time production monitoring, overall equipment effectiveness tracking, downtime and scrap-cause capture, process monitoring that raises alerts when parameters drift, maintenance triggers, and graphical finite scheduling. Dashboards and plant scoreboards push the current picture to managers and operators. Paired with Epicor Kinetic, job, inventory, and labor data move between the ERP and the shop floor.
Who buys it
Plastics processors first: injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, blown film. Rubber, metal stamping, and other repetitive or assembly-oriented operations follow. In the United States the system turns up most often in custom molding shops, packaging producers, and automotive suppliers that need machine-level accountability. Plant size ranges from a single processor site to multi-plant groups. What they share is machine-paced production where cycle data drives costing and capacity decisions.
How it is sold
The system grew up as an on-premises Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server application; Epicor now offers cloud deployment as well. Nothing is published on price. Epicor and its channel partners quote per project, and the main variables are machine-connection scope and module selection. Buyers weighing the combined cost of an ERP plus an MES can structure that math with our ERP TCO calculator.
Where it wins, where it loses
Direct machine connectivity is why this product has outlasted most of its 1980s peers, and it is the reason to buy it. If you run Epicor Kinetic in a molding or stamping plant, Advanced MES is the shortest path to real machine data, and the prebuilt integration is worth actual money in project time.
Do not buy it as your business system. There are no financials, no order management, no purchasing, so a companion ERP is mandatory and the budget has to reflect two systems rather than one. Processors who want a single integrated suite for the plant should look instead at industry ERP products with monitoring built in. And if your ERP is not from Epicor, treat the interface work as the main project risk rather than a footnote: our ERP selection guide shows how to put that on the table early.
What the Epicor Advanced MES website looks like
Current view of the vendor homepage, captured by our editorial team.
